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A 3 page research paper that presents a speech on this topic in outline format. The writer addresses negative effects in regards to body image, role models, alcohol consumption and violence. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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images and ideas that are often held up in popular media as an ideal frequently have negative effects of young people. This pertains not only to the body image that
young girls aspire towards, but also to new stories and images that present drinking alcohol, using controlled substances, and indulging in casual sex, as behaviors that the adult world values.
While media has always been a powerful influence on behavior, affecting people at a non-verbal, emotional level, as well cognitively, the possible negative effects of media have been multiplied
by current technology and its omnipresent nature in modern society. I. Children and adolescents are highly affected by the images they see in the media. 1) Famous celebrities who idolized
by their young fans set a frequently bad example for them to follow. 2) Lindsay Lohan, idolized by six-year-olds who love her Disney movies, is notorious for her scandalous public
behavior (Deveny and Kelley). 3) One L.A. mother, referring to the girls influenced highly by the media, by questioning, "Are we raising a generation...(of) prosti-tots" (Deveny and Kelley).
4) Sixth grade girls dress like Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears not to attract male attention, but rather, as one expert points out, "to fit in with other girls
and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence," according
to Mary Muscari of the University of Scranton (Muscari). 1) These statistics are based on children and adolescents watching around 28 hours of television per week. 2) Media broadcasts
were deregulated in 1980 and, since that time, there has been a considerable increase in the violence portrayed on TV and in film. 3) Research indicates a causal relationship between
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